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His limited offense really doesn't make up for how bad he's been defensively pretty much his whole career, and now he's older and on the downslope. Time to move on.

I'll be pissed if NJ picks him up...

Im totally fine with cleaning house. The GMs have to take away his toys but they don't. Also, Stolarz is made out of the corpse of Joffrey Lupul.

Agreed. I think Gillis sounds more interesting in the Presidents role as I hear it. Mirtle also mentioned that the analytics team is good, just they weren't relied on much, which might be why Pelley said the data-driven bit at his presser. I do like the idea of poaching from the Panthers though.

Reminds me of Poni - Sundin - Antro

I more took it as there's a group of fans who already are annointing Mehta because he's part of the Panthers who assume he had an outsized role. To me he's more saying we shouldn't conflate Mehta with Zito. But yeah he zagged too far in the other direction.

Called it. There was nowhere else for that to go except for all out carnage, and he's the kind of guy who, after the biggest bluff, negotiates because that's how he gets the "best deal" in his pea sized brain. Im also not sure how much even the Iranian regime would've wanted to call that bluff.

The game was actually decent and the crowd was pretty good. I heard a bunch of uni students behind me talk about how many dogs the managed to pack away haha. Really frustrating seeing the Jays strand base runners though. That game was very winnable.

Maybe he makes sense as a president guy. I looked at some of his hockey trades and they look pretty pedestrian.

How do we feel about Gillis? He hasn't been around for a loooong time.

There's going to be some non-credible negotiation "breakthrough" that averts it. But yeah, it's completely unhinged and insane. I think most countries of the world would remove a president/prime minister as unhinged as this one.

I'm going to the game tonight and I'm already regretting it...

I mean there are guys like Dave Andreychuk, Dino Ciccarelli, Mark Recchi, Joe Nieuwendyk, Marian Hossa and Jeremy Roenick in the hall. JT has to be in the conversation. Also, all I meant by the Sundin comparison was the longevity, consistency and durability, but obviously Sundin carried the...

I truly thought this was some kind of weird satire. Dr. Strangelove seems more like Dr. Normallove now.

I mean why not poach from one of the best orgs over the last half decade?

I do think there's something to be said about durability. His contemporaries are Sid and Ovie which is a bit unfair. He's basically Sundin all over again.

All the other teams have balls to make hard decisions. Then there's us.

Dubas and Shanahan didn't want to stick together anymore though.

Nobody is saying let's judge Pelley completely yet. But he's the guy who's allowed this all to transpire. I think people are right to be skeptical and nervous. The Chayka news makes me want to hurl.

Great executives can identify great talent and this isn't it.